Analysis of the overturning moment caused by transient liquid slosh inside a partly filled moving tank

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-301

  Modaressi Tehrani, K ^a   Rakheja, S ^a   Sedaghati, R ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Destabilizing forces; Overturning moment; Partly filled moving tank; Transient fluid motion; Transient liquid slosh

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; VISCOSITY;

DESTABILIZING FORCES; OVERTURNING MOMENT; PARTLY FILLED MOVING TANKS; TRANSIENT FLUID MOTION; TRANSIENT LIQUID SLOSH;

LIQUID SLOSHING;

EID: 33947590895     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070D01705     Document Type: Article

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